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because it creeps about and scatters itself' in the fields). Sylvestre, and sativum. Wild and garden succory. The wild is the cichorium intybus Lin. Sp. Pi. 1142.

It is a plant with oblong, dark green, hairy leaves, deeply jagged, like those of dandelion, but larger; in the bosoms of which, towards the tops of the branches, the flowers come forth in spikes, consisting each of a number of blue flat flosculi, set in a scaly cup, which afterwards become a covering to several short angular seeds: the root is long and slender, of a brown colour on the outside, and white within. It is biennial, grows in hedges and by road sides, and flowers in June and July.

It abounds with a milky juice, of a penetrating bitterish taste, and of no remarkable smell: the roots are bitterer than the leaves or stalks, and these much more so than the flowers. But by culture in gardens it loses its green colour, and in a great measure its bitterness, and in this state is a common sallad herb: the deeper coloured and the deeper jagged the leaves are, the bitterer is the taste of the whole plant, which is mildly aperient, and, if freely used, it loosens the belly. The virtue resides in the milky juice, which may be extracted by boiling in water, or by pressure. The wild and the garden sorts are used indifferently, and chiefly as food. If the root is cut into small pieces, dried and roasted, it resembles coffee, and is sometimes a good substitute for it.

Cichoreum latifolium. See Endivia.

Cichoreum verrucarium. See Zacintha.